r/thewalkingdead • u/cosmicgumdrop • 4d ago

If Lori magically appeared again, would Rick leave Michonne for her? Show Spoiler

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u/this_shit-crazy 4d ago

Rick knew everyone at CRM longer than anyone from Atlanta or Alexandria always blows my mind lol

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u/rafael-a 4d ago

Yeah, that’s why TWD timeline pissed me off

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u/Seputku 4d ago

Yeah like Daryl’s been searching for Rick like 6x as long as he’s even known him… just kinda doesn’t make sense and throws off the whole universe

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u/DerBernd123 4d ago

I wouldn't say it doesn't make sense. 6x as long seems a very long tbf but Rick is probably the first person who treated him like a decent human being, they saved each other countless times and since Daryl likes to life as lone wolf he probably didn't have much else to do anyways at this time

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u/Seputku 4d ago

Yeah, but they live in a world where death is at every corner and they watched the man explode next to 30 lbs of dynamite… I think after a bit you realistically call it. Hell, half the group was okay stopping the hunt for Sophia like a couple weeks in

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u/DerBernd123 4d ago

Yeah that's true. I guess it could also be seen as some kind of mental problem that didn't allow Daryl to give Rick up or something like that. Just look at how the death of a person can fuck people up in the real world too. Maybe Daryl was just clinging a bit too much on Rick which made him search for such a long time. The fact that they didn't find a body even though they searched every possible location made it probably even worse because he never got a chance for closure

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u/K4yn3sOma112 4d ago

He said it in the opening episode of his show. "Hell, I'm still trying"

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u/Seputku 4d ago

That could be true, but I think a likelier explanation is just poor writing/planning and trying to stretch the show out into a franchise with multiple spin offs

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u/DerBernd123 4d ago

Yeah of course but a Canon explanation is always more fun than just accepting that the writers or show runners fucked up lol

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u/Seputku 4d ago

Haha definitely, for me some of that fun is ruined when I have to go to astronomical lengths to justify certain choices but to each their own!

I still love the show for nostalgia, the zombies, and honestly seasons 1-5 or 1-6 are legitimately fantastic tv

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u/camrynnnsmith 3d ago

im rewatching rn and make that hunt for sophia a gew DAYS. they literally did not care. poor carol and sophia she deserved so much better

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u/noneofthemswallow 4d ago

You’re not supposed to think about it too much. This isn’t that type of show anymore.

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u/the-willow-witch 4d ago

But in safety and comfort time goes faster. They were trauma bonded

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u/lostinthesauceguy 4d ago

There was absolutely no good reason not to have more time jumps. Even just to compensate for Chandler Riggs CLEARLY being many years older.

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u/rafael-a 4d ago

On my head cannon there are some major time jumps between season 3 and 4, and another after Carl loses his eye.

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u/jellydrizzle 4d ago

Yeah, i think the same thing too 🙈

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u/lostinthesauceguy 3d ago

I also like the idea that they were at the prison much longer too. Makes sense why the community got bigger and more settled.

We can pretend... but it isn't the case.

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u/Clean_Crocodile4472 4d ago

He knew Lori and Shane longer than the CRM no? He knew them since school

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u/battle_mommyx2 4d ago

I think they meant the new people

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u/Glad-Degree-4270 4d ago

Also ones who are alive lol

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u/battle_mommyx2 4d ago

lol that too

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u/blujay_80 4d ago

Well yeah obviously he knew Lori and Shane and Carl longer than the CRM, because they have a history before the apocalypse, but also think that he’s been with CRM longer than Judith was alive when he was flown away…she was around 4-ish (?) years old, and Michonne came along when she was just an infant too, so he’s been with the CRM for a longer amount of time than he was with all the people he’s loved and considered family.

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u/Hindsight21 4d ago

And then she was like 13 when he finally got back...big oof.

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u/ThestoopCrew34 3d ago

Rick took going out to get milk way too seriously.

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u/dobbystoe 4d ago

To be fair, CRM doesn’t seem like a place that makes it easy to form relationships, with all the mistrust- Jadis mentions this when talking to Gabriel.

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u/blujay_80 4d ago

Right????? I thought of that! He was there longer than Judith was alive when he got flown away, SO crazy to me that it’s actually upsetting lol. 😩

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u/HGKS9477 4d ago

It's quite annoying the timeline isn't clear throughout the show

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u/Haunting_Drag_1682 3d ago

Yeah but he wasn't attached to any of them really. Time doesn't matter when one group was his family and one was temporary until he found his way back.